I was an extremely active kid, biking everywhere until the street lights came on pretty much every day. The helmet safety panic really crushed a lot of my enjo

I was an extremely active kid, biking everywhere until the street lights came on pretty much every day. The helmet safety panic really crushed a lot of my enjoyment of life. Made riding a bike utterly miserable for me - both socially with my peer group at the time, as well as it being massively uncomfortable to wear. Not to mention getting in trouble dozens of times for leaving it at whatever location. I usually would end up biking outside sight distance of the parents and ditch it under a bush for later retrieval. But once this rule was enforced on me, my biking was severely curtailed as it didn't have the same simple joy of freedom it had beforehand.